Astronomy/Black Holes

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Question
Is it it true that black holes actually rip a hole between two dimensions?

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Joe,

Are you thinking of wormholes?  This idea makes terrific science fiction, but unfortunately real scientists aren't so confident that wormholes are real.

Look at this NASA link.  Scroll down, near the bottom of the webpage, to see the most important part for your question.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/black_holes.html

If you are really interested in this kind of thing, and would like to seriously understand it, then you should be careful about what you read.  There is a lot of ridiculous BS on the internet.  The University of California at Berkeley has a very good astronomy program.
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html

I hope this gets you started.  Please get back to me if you'd like more detail, or whatever.

Keep Looking Up!
--Ed

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I am not a professional astronomer by any means, but astronomy has been an interest of mine since childhood, and I am well-informed on the subject. If unable to answer someone`s question personally, I will know how to quickly find the answer online, because I keep myself informed about developments in the field and I know where to look for information.

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I worked in an observatory for awhile at one point, doing various interesting things with a computer.

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